Word: aiming
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...Goulletquer applauds governments in the U.S. and Europe for committing to plans to save the world's finance system. Yet one of the main pillars of those rescue packages - guaranteeing loans between banks with the aim of unblocking frozen credit markets that most businesses and households rely on - has not yet provoked the intended reaction. And while it's still fairly early in the bailout game, political and business leaders are already viewing banks with growing impatience ast credit taps remaining shut...
Given the overwhelming slate of potential harm, the aim of the study was to identify early predictors of victimization, along with behavioral interventions that may prevent it. The bulk of past research on the matter involved primary-school-age children, says Michel Boivin, a psychologist at Université Laval in Québec, Canada, and a co-author of the study; the new research tracks behavior in very young kids - as early as those in pre-preschool, when children first begin interacting with one another socially...
...they are likely to go out of business, or at least be forced to undergo significant alterations. In the current economic situation, it seems entirely wrong for the city to deliberately attempt to make life more difficult for small business owners and their employees, especially for such a nebulous aim. The Public Health Commission should let these four establishments and their customers live their lives in peace—or at least, let them breathe whatever air they please...
...recently met with several county judges who oversee foreclosure proceedings to talk about reform measures, how did that come about and what is the aim...
...launching a range of attacks on their Democratic opponent that revolve around one central question: Who is Barack Obama? Whether these broadsides focus on Obama's ties to former domestic terrorist William Ayers, his votes on funding troops in Iraq or his record on crime in Illinois, they all aim at emotional, hot-button issues that the McCain campaign hopes will cut through the political clutter and current financial crisis to help convince voters that Obama is not the man they thought him to be - nor is he fit for the most powerful job in the world...